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How-to: Make an e-paper clock from Esquire magazine
If you’ve never heard about electronic paper, crawl out from under that rock and read up on the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle. E-paper is a flexible display made of color-changing beads that mimic...
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UHF power harvesting
[Alanson Sample] and [Joshua R. Smith] have been experimenting with wireless power transfer for their sensing platform. Their microcontroller of choice is the MSP430, which we used on our e-paper...
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Kindle 2 teardown
The people at iFixit have shown that they’re still on top of their game by tearing down the new Kindle 2 eBook reader. The main processor is a 532MHz ARM-11 from Freescale. Interestly, there isn’t any...
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Reverse engineering a mobile phone e-paper display
While e-paper is common among e-readers, there are very few, if any phones other than the MOTOFONE that exclusively use an e-paper display. [Steve] had one of these phones sitting around and thought...
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An e-paper information panel
With all the Kindles and Nooks we’re bound to find at yard sales and thrift shops in the coming years, this might be useful. [Chris] made a door-mounted e-paper display to keep himself up to date on...
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Hackaday Links: August 28, 2016
E-paper looks awesome, but it’s a pain to work with. You need only look at the homebrew implementations of e-paper drivers and the mess of SMD components for proof of that. [jarek] wanted to play...
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The Other Way to Brick a Mac Classic
Why would you build a mini Mac Classic using LEGO and a Raspberry Pi? Well, why wouldn’t you? [Jannis Hermanns] couldn’t find a reason to control this outburst of nostalgia for the good old days of...
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Breadboarding with E-Paper
[David Watts] picked up an inexpensive Waveshare e-Paper display. He made a video about using it with a breadboard, and you can see it below. The E-Paper or E-Ink displays have several advantages. They...
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[Ben Krasnow] Hacks E-Paper For Fastest Refresh Rate
[Ben Krasnow] is known for his clear explanations alongside awesome hardware, being one of only a few hackers who owns an electron microscope. This time he’s explaining how E-paper works while...
View ArticleA Low Cost, Dead Tree Touch Screen
Remember the “paperless office”? Neither do we, because despite the hype of end-to-end digital documents, it never really happened. The workplace is still a death-trap for trees, and with good reason:...
View ArticleE-ink Typewriter Is Refreshingly Slow
It’s pretty hard to use the internet to complete a task without being frequently distracted. For better or worse, there are rabbit holes at every turn and whilst exploring them can be a delight,...
View ArticleUsing E-Paper Displays for an Electronic Etch A Sketch
Electronic things are often most successful when they duplicate some non-electronic thing. Most screens, then, are poor replacements for paper. Except, of course, for E-paper. These displays have high...
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Open Hardware E-Ink Display Just Needs an Idea
Its taken awhile, but thanks to devices like the Amazon Kindle, the cost of e-ink displays are finally at the point where mere mortals such as us can actually start using them in our projects. Now...
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PaperLedger: An e-Ink Cryptocurrency Ticker
For a long time it seemed like e-ink displays were outside the reach of us lowly hackers, as beyond the handful of repurposed Kindles that graced these pages, we saw precious few projects utilizing...
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Agora, A Hackable E-Paper Clock
[Daniel Zilinec] appreciates the aesthetics of e-paper and thought it would make a great clock. The natural appearance of e-paper certainly appeals to a lot of hackers. We’ve seen everything from...
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Winners of the Take Flight with Feather Contest
It’s hard to beat the fidelity and durability of printed text on paper. But the e-paper display gets pretty close, and if you couple it will great design and dependable features, you might just prefer...
View ArticleNew Part Day: Battery-Less NFC E-Paper Display
Waveshare, known for e-ink components aimed at hobbyists among other cool parts, has recently released a very interesting addition to their product line. This is an enclosed e-ink display which gets...
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Hands On With a Batteryless E-Paper Display
E-paper displays are unusual in that power is only needed during a screen update. Once the display’s contents have been set, no power whatsoever is required to maintain the image. That’s pretty nifty....
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E-Paper Display Shows Movies Very, Very Slowly
How much would you enjoy a movie that took months to finish? We suppose it would very much depend on the film; the current batch of films from the Star Wars franchise are quite long enough as they are,...
View ArticleInternet Connected E-Paper Message Board
Are you still writing notes on paper and sticking them to the fridge like it’s the ’80s? Well, if you are, and you read this site, you’d probably like to upgrade to something a bit more 21st century....
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